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Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts vice president of construction, in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Oct. 2, 2023. A lot of my day is actually managing taste, he said. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK, NY.- By the end of this, more than a quarter of our galleries will have changed, Max Hollein, director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said of the New York City institutions many huge capital projects. And were not closing the museum to do it. Its open-heart surgery, and the patient is awake. The number of renovations, new buildings and upgrades to museum spaces around the country has been rising steadily, ranging from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Frick Collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Princeton University Art Museum. Some of the projects are taking years to complete. Most museums embark on a new addition or a major renovation and then, once it is completed, take a good, long breather from capital projects. But the Met one of the worlds largest and most visited museums, with 3.4 million visitors last year is a continuing construction site with a special challenge: It does not technicall ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape's exhibition "(ka) pheko ye - the dream to come" opened in Kiasma. In preparation for her exhibition, Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape spent time in the rural municipality of Hämeenkyrö, Finland, engaging with the joy of being with the lakes, the landscape, the healers of the region and healing herbs. The installation in the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma turns the entire fifth-floor gallery into a scented arena.
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| Upper East meets Lower East in a celebration of art in Manhattan | | Historic meets modern in Hindman's November Western & Contemporary Native American Art Auction | | Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Carmine Crucifix returns to Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena after restoration |
Plausible Ploy (2023), by the artist Lisa Corinne Davis, who will be showing eight paintings at the Art Show. (via the artist and Jenkins Johnson Gallery via The New York Times)
by Alina Tugend
NEW YORK, NY.- In one of the more surprising turns in his life, Toddrick Brockington, a felon for 26 years and now head of a mentoring program, will attend a gala where his portrait will be a major attraction. The oil painting is part of the Art Show held by the nonprofit Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) at the prestigious Park Avenue Armory on Manhattans Upper East Side. The show has been held for 35 years to raise money for the 130-year-old Henry Street Settlement, a community services organization for residents of the citys Lower East Side. The show, running Nov. 2 to Nov. 5, has always had an unusual uptown-downtown relationship, linking the increasingly unequal worlds within New York and in the country as a whole. This year the connection between the two ... More | |
Gerald Harvey Jones (American, 1933-2017) | The New Fillies, 1983. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.
DENVER, CO.- Important works by iconic western American artists Eanger Irving Couse and Philip Russell Goodwin are expected to headline Hindmans fall Western & Contemporary Native American Art auction on November 1st and 2nd. The duo lead a historic western art session that will be offered alongside a strong selection of contemporary western, wildlife, and contemporary Native American fine art and objects. The top lot of the auction is expected to be an oil on canvas by Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866-1936) entitled Mysteries of the Stream (lot 30; estimate: $200,000 - $300,000). Couse was a founding member and the first president of the famed Taos Society of Artists, a cooperative of artists who settled in New Mexico in the early 1900s to capture the unspoiled landscapes and native inhabitants. Mysteries of the Stream perfectly encapsulates the ethos of the society and is quintessential Couse, depicting a Native American man a ... More | |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348), Carmine Crucifix, (c. 132930). Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy. After 2023 restoration with support from Friends of Florence and The Giorgi Family Foundation. Photograph Serge Dominge. Courtesy Friends of Florence.
SIENA.- Ambrogio Lorenzettis painted Crucifix (c. 132930) from the Convent of San Niccolò al Carmine, meticulously restored thanks to the Friends of Florence and generous support from The Giorgi Family Foundation, was presented to the public in a dedicated gallery in Sienas Pinacoteca where it will remain on display until January 8, 2024. Conducted by Muriel Vervat under the direction and scientific supervision of Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of the Musei della Toscana, the restoration of the 14th century Sienese masterwork by an artist considered to be one of the great masters of his age, took almost three years to complete. When this temporary exhibition comes to an end, the Carmine Crucifix will return to Room 7 in the Pinacoteca, installed alongside other works by Lorenzetti (1290-1348), known chiefly ... More |
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| Art Bridges awards Palmer Museum largest grant in the museum's history | | UK's best new building - John Morden Centre wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 | | Largest Dan Flavin and Donald Judd exhibition outside the U.S. to open in Doha |
The new Palmer Museum of Art building at the end of construction on Sept. 29, 2023. Photo: Holder Construction. All Rights Reserved.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has been awarded $168,000 from the Art Bridges Foundation through its new Access for All grant initiative. The funding will help to defray the expense of offering extended evening hours one night a week when the new Palmer Museum of Art opens in late spring 2024. For the first time in the museums history, we will add Thursday evenings to our regular museum hours thanks to the generous support from Art Bridges, said Palmer Museum Director Erin M. Coe. Many members of our campus and local communities have schedules that dont allow for a daytime visit. By keeping the museum open after hours, one evening a week, we are advancing our strategic goal of making the museums collection, exhibitions and programming accessible ... More | |
John Morden Centre, © Jim Stephenson.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named the John Morden Centre - a retirement day centre in London - by Mæ as the winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, sponsored by Autodesk. Presented since 1996, the prestigious prize is awarded to the UKs best new building. The John Morden Centre provides day care for residents of Morden College, a retirement community, in Blackheath. The new centre complements existing buildings on the Grade I-listed college grounds, including an almshouse and chapel, both attributed to St Paul's Cathedral architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building is arranged as a series of red brick pavilions housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber cloister. A striking, zinc-clad roof and high chimneys echo those of its 17th century neighbours. A light and airy reception hall is the starting point for a journey through the new building whic ... More | |
Donald Judd, untitled, 1965 (fabricated 1967). Galvanised iron, 10 units, each 9 x 40 x 31 inches (22.9 x 101.6 x 78.7 cm). Qatar Museums Collection. Photo courtesy Judd Foundation. Donald Judd Art © Judd Foundation. Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
DOHA.- This fall, Qatar Museums will open the largest museum exhibition outside of the United Statesand the first in-depth presentation worldwide in nearly two decadesof the work of the closely linked American artists Dan Flavin (19331996) and Donald Judd (19281994). The exhibition will also be the first major presentation of Flavin and Judds works in the MENA region. The artists were considered two of the founders of Minimalism, the widely influential art movement that broke free from traditional notions of painting and sculpture to focus on experiencing real space and materials. Flavin and Judd met in 1962 in New York, and quickly became central figures among a cohort of artists ... More |
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| Rocking the art world at 80 | | Portraits in unlikely spaces | | The art world opens up to an underrepresented group |
Darsie Alexander, left, the acting director and chief curator at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, with Rebecca Shaykin, who co-curated the upcoming Marta MinujÃn exhibit, outside the museum on Aug. 2, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Alix Strauss
NEW YORK, NY.- At 80, Marta MinujÃn is still as stylishly bold as her art has been over her long career. She fashions platinum blonde hair and signature bangs. Aviator sunglasses usually cover her eyes; bold rings cover her fingers. Her ultra-colorful jumpsuits are an extension of her art, as if she is wearing a live piece of the striped mattresses and paintings that have become synonymous with her name. A Buenos Aires, Argentina, native born to a prominent Russian-Jewish family in 1943, MinujÃn began her career in the late 1950s. During the 1960s she experimented with mattresses, creating biomorphic soft sculptures, painted in striped patterns with fluorescent colors, which became her signature style. Each was a different iteration: Some were small; others one could crawl inside; some referenced the body, which evoked intimacy, play, even eroticism. Half of your life takes place on a mattress. You ... More | |
A mixed-media diorama in an Edwardian silver jewelry box by Curtis Talwst Santiago titled What Are You Doing? (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Eilene Zimmerman
NEW YORK, NY.- Three groundbreaking Black portraiture artists have exhibitions this fall at university art museums, two of which are Ivy League schools historically white spaces with pasts that are entangled with slavery. The shows speak to the evolution of art institutions as they confront calls to diversify, which began in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 when museums nationwide were charged with racism and discriminatory practices. Lauren Haynes, director of curatorial affairs and programs at the Queens Museum in New York City, and co-curator of one of the three university exhibitions, said she hopes these are part of a sustained effort by museums of all sizes to create exhibitions and collections that reflect their communities and the larger world in which they exist. Yale Universitys history includes the use of enslaved African labor and faculty members who led the American eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s. The first nine presidents of Princeto ... More | |
Ginger Shulick Porcella, Creative Growths executive director, and Tom di Maria, the director emeritus, at the Creative Growth center in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 18, 2023. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
by Michael Janofsky
OAKLAND, CA.- It was 2:15 on a late-summer Friday afternoon, time for Creative Growths weekly dance party. The artists gathered in the lunch area and began gyrating to tunes from a boom box. Soon, a conga line formed. Chugging along, they snaked their way through their workspaces, then out the front door and back, synchronicity more evident in happy faces than footwork. It was a joyous way to celebrate another week of artistry. Creative Growth is a sprawling art center and gallery near downtown Oakland in a building long ago converted from an auto repair shop. Far more than the dancing on Fridays, what happens here every day is a celebration of art, of life, of the human spirit. Its foremost a tribute to the mystery and marvel of the brains capacity to overcome deficits and, through artistic endeavor, open a window onto an inner self. The artists here have intellectual and developmental disabilities some with autism, some with Down syndrome, ... More |
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| Blackfeet artists, John Isaiah Pepion and Louis Still Smoking, create installation at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art | | Polaroid unveils limited edition film 'A Captivating Fusion of Art and Science' | | Unveiling 'Iconic Masters': AstaGuru's Auction House to showcase rare works by Indian modernists |
Louis Still Smoking.
GREAT FALLS, MT.- Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art is now presenting WITHIN: Louis Still Smoking & John Isaiah Pepion. WITHIN is drawn from the artists belief that the strength and success of Native American identity and culture is internally inherited and created inside of their communities. An Artist Discussion will be held Thursday, October 26, 2023. As artists, Louis Still Smoking and John Isaiah Pepion aim to help reclaim, reinform, and redefine what it means to a member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana today. By looking within, they themselves and fellow indigenous communities become whole again. The artists will collaborate to create a mural inside the museum with integrated individual works. The exhibition has a time-based element as the mural is temporary and reflects on the history of cultural erasure, while the combined individual free-standing works reflect continuity and resistance. Still Smoking ... More | |
The 10 unique circular frame designs are perfect canvases to bring the interplay to life as colors change based on surrounding colors.
MINNETONKA, MN.- Polaroid presents its latest addition to the film lineup: the "Round Frame Retinex" special edition film. The release pays homage to the Retinex Theory, created by Polaroid founder and great inventor Edwin Land. The special edition film delves into the perception of colors in relation to their surroundings. This unique film design captures the mesmerizing interplay of colors that Land's theory highlights. Innovation and Science Converge: At its core, the Retinex Theory unravels the intricacies of how human eyes and brain interpret colors, shedding light on the dynamic interplay between an object's color and its surroundings. Polaroid's new film captures and accentuates this enchanting phenomenon, promising a one-of-a-kind visual adventure. What sets this special double pack edition apart are the 10 ... More | |
Abdur Rahman Chughtai, LOT 18, Untitled, Watercolour on card. Size:22.4 x 18.1 in.
MUMBAI .- AstaGuru is set to unveil a treasure trove of rare and previously unseen artworks in its upcoming 'Iconic Masters' Auction. This finally curated collection of 190 lots is a veritable journey through significant decades of Modern Indian Art and feature works by revered names who shaped the nation's artistic narrative. What sets this catalogue apart is its exceptional inclusion of not only the iconic, signature style pieces by these maestros but also a captivating array of artworks that represent a departure from their customary themes and mediums. Scheduled to be held on October 27-28, 2023, the Iconic Masters Auction offers an exceptional opportunity for collectors to acquire works from the multifaceted oeuvre of Indias iconic modernists. Talking about the upcoming auction, Sneha Gautam, Senior Vice President, Client Relations, AstaGuru ... More |
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Now open - new gallery dedicated to the history of poster art and design at London Transport Museum
LONDON.- London Transport Museum cares for one of the worlds largest collections of twentieth century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster artworks and over 30,000 posters housed at its Museum Depot in Acton, west London. Together, these reflect the Underground and London Transports unrivalled reputation for commissioning great works of commercial art and design. Exhibitions hosted in the Global Poster Gallery will feature artistic works from the Museums collection together with loans from private, national, and international archives. Its displays will reveal the power of the poster and its influence on mass communication from the 1900s to the present day. When Frank Pick, the first Chief Executive of London Transport, first took charge of the Undergrounds publicity in 1908, he revolutionised poster design. ... More
African Artists' Foundation announces artist lineup for Lagosphoto Festival's largest expansion
LAGOS,NIGERIA.- The African Artists Foundation, a non-profit organization and art space based in Lagos reveals the final selection of artists participating in the 14th edition of the LagosPhoto Festival, an international photography festival taking place from October 27 December 31, 2023. Bringing together 38 national and international artists, this years edition welcomes talents from all over the world including Nigeria, Republic of Benin, United States of America, Ireland, and Australia, showcasing myriad of artistic visions for hopeful change. The final selection includes returning artists such as Raquel van Haver and Zanele Muholi, and newcomers including Arko Datto, Eugenia Lim, and Rehab Eldalil. This years theme, Ground State Fellowship Within the Uncanny will bring together photographic works exploring the present moment and envisioning r ... More
'Time & Space: Watches from the Collection of Glen de Vries' achieved a total of $3,017,511 at Hindman's Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Hindmans first ever New York auction, Time & Space: Watches from the Collection of Glen de Vries, achieved a total of $3,017,511 surpassing the low estimate with 95% of 101 lots sold and realizing 106% hammer above low estimate. Over 800 bidders from 45 countries registered for the sale and over 50% of buyers were first-time clients to Hindman. Combined with the afternoon various owner sale of Watches, the two auctions, which were held at Hindmans pop-up space in SoHo, achieved a total of $3,340,134. There was active participation across all sales channels, absentee, online, and energetic bidding in the room from clients of all ages. It was an honor to launch our inaugural ... More
Wilding Cran Gallery announces the representation of artist Ry Rocklen
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Based in Joshua Tree CA, Ry Rocklen is known for his work with found objects, recognizing their aesthetic value and historical significance. Often through the use of ceramic Rocklen substantiates the overlooked artistry of everyday life, granting his subjects second lives as enduring sculptural objects. Whether casting his entire wardrobe in porcelain, turning a pillow into a 3D mosaic, recreating a flat tire in bronze, or creating a modernist living room set out of trophy parts, Rocklens practice reveals the capacity for poetry, sincerity, and fantasy embedded within the ordinary. I am devoted to the objects that I work with, as these are the objects practically woven into our DNA. I want to celebrate how special these things are and have people see them anew through my work. Ry Rocklen. After relocating to Joshua Tree ... More
'New Pre-Raphaelites' project centered on LGBTQ+ rights in India exhibiting at Hales Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales is now presenting The New Pre-Raphaelites, celebrated artist Sunil Gupta's third solo exhibition with the gallery. The important series of photographs, originally made in 2008, were subject of a solo exhibition at The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK (2022) and were included in his major touring retrospective, From Here to Eternity at The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; and The Image Centre, Toronto, Canada (2020, 2021, 2022). Most recently the series was presented in Tate Britain's exhibition, The Rossettis (2023). The exhibition at Hales will be the largest presentation of the series in the US. Over a career spanning four decades, Gupta has remained dedicated to advocating the visibility of his queer identity and Indian heritage, cultivating a powerfully influential practice which is simultaneously political and deeply personal. ... More
Gardiner Museum debuts largest ever North American exhibition of Kenyan-British potter Dame Magdalene Odundo
TORONTO.- One of the worlds most esteemed ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo, will make her Canadian debut this fall at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects opened October 19, 2023. It is the largest ever North American exhibition of Odundos work. Since the early 1980s, the British-Kenyan artist has pursued a singular vision centered on the refined, magisterial ceramic vessel. Made entirely by hand and finished to a smooth, lustrous sheen, these works are uniquely her own while synthesizing traditions of ceramics and other media from multiple global cultures. Odundos sensuous vessels, with their vibrant orange and velvety black surfaces, reference ... More
'Here We Are' review: The last Sondheim, cool and impossibly chic
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Sondheim had a genius for genre. Some of his best works were adapted from niche sources including penny dreadfuls (Sweeney Todd), epistolary novels (Passion) and Roman comedies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum). Leaning hard into their specific styles, he mined their expressive potential in songs that could hardly be improved and never sounded alike. Still, for him and for others, surrealism was often a genre too far. Musical theater is surreal enough already. (Why did that taciturn man suddenly start singing? Who are those dancing women in lingerie?) Building a show on a willfully irrational source risks doubling down on the weirdness, leading to Huh? results such as Andrew Lloyd Webbers Cats and Sondheims own Anyone Can Whistle. So as we waited what seemed ... More
Grayson Perry joins over 60 artists in charity auction
LONDON.- Drawing a Line Under Torture will feature works by more than 60 artists, with world-renowned names including: Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Kiki Smith, David Hockney, Maggi Hambling, Antony Gormley, Jim Dine, Paula Rego, Mona Hatoum and Quentin Blake. Art works will start at £400 and with up to £95,000 expected for an original Grayson Perry ceramic, created especially for Freedom From Torture. There will be two, online opportunities to purchase art works: · A selection of over 50 works will be available for online for silent bidding from 10am on 23rd October at : artauction.freedomfromtorture.org · A Live auction of 12 selected works (including the Perry) will be auctioned from 7:30pm 6th November at Sothebys. To register: [email protected] Drawing a Line Under Torture has raised more than £1 mil ... More
Londoners can now sit on The People's Throne
LONDON.- A new piece of public artwork has been unveiled in Ealing, west London, as part of the opening of a new square at Acton Gardens, the regeneration of the former South Acton estate. Designed by London-based artist and former South Acton resident, Adébayo Bolaji, The Peoples Throne has been designed to represent the local community, with the sculpture incorporating seven key values about Acton Gardens. The sculpture is the focal point of the newly enhanced Central Plaza at Acton Gardens, and was officially opened by Adébayo alongside Cllr Peter Mason, the Leader of Ealing Council, and representatives from Countryside Partnerships, L&Q and the Acton Gardens Community Board. The Peoples Throne sculpture incorporates a mural on the reverse which was designed with help from the local community and the youth ... More
One of the most important abstract artworks from the Arab World comes to Bonhams
LONDON.- Known for his enigmatic works, full of colour and vibrancy, Shafic Abboud (1926-2004) was one of the most well-known 20th century Lebanese painters. Abbouds colossal 1984 tryptich, Villa des Iris, which has an estimate of £300,000-500,000, is one of the most important abstract artworks from the Arab world. The work now leads Bonhams Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Sale on 15 November. The largest composition by Abboud ever to be offered at auction, Villa des Iris was painted at the height of the artists career. After a prolonged period of depression that coincided with the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon, the 1980s marked a rebirth in Abbouds career in which his work experienced a renewed sense of vigour and colour. Born near Bikfaya, Abboud studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts then ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Andrea della Robbia was born October 24, 1435. Andrea della Robbia (October 24, 1435 - August 4, 1525) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics. Born in Florence, Robbia was the son of Marco della Robbia, whose brother, Luca della Robbia, popularized the use of glazed terra-cotta for sculpture. Andrea became Luca's pupil, and was the most important artist of ceramic glaze of the times. In this image: Andrea della Robbia, 1435â1525, Saint Michael the Archangel Italian (Florence) 15th century (ca. 1475) 1470 - 1480. Glazed terracotta; Frame, wood 31-1/8 x 61-7/8 in. (79.1 x 157.2 cm) Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960 60.127.2.
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